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more or less decurrent on the ovary. Zip beardless, campami- 
late, embracing the wingless column and cohering below with 
its produced base, with 2 callosities below the middle, entire at 
the apex. Pollen farinaceous. — Flowers in a spirally twisted 
spike. — Named from tnrupa, a spiral, and avO og, a flower or in- 
florescence. 
1. S. autnmndlis Rich. ( fragrant L.) ; leaves radical oblong 
subpefiolate, spike unilateral, bracteas pubescent shorter than 
the flower, lip oblong. Ophrys spiralis L. : E. B. t. 541. 
Neottia Sw. : Brit. FI. 
Dry hilly pastures in various parts of England in a chalky or gra- 
velly soil. H-. 8,9. — Knobs 3 — 4, oblong. Stem 4 — 6 inches high, 
rather bracteate than leafy. Flowers singularly spiral on the stalk, 
greenish-white. Upper outer and 2 lateral inner sepals combined. 
Lip longer than the rest of the flower, oblong, broader and crenate at 
the apex. Stigma and anther both acuminate. 
2. S. cestivulis Rich. (Sttmmer L.) ; knobs long cylindrical, 
radical leaves oblongo-lanceolate much shorter than the stem, 
cauline narrow-lanceolate, spike lax, bracteas glabrous shorter 
than the flower. Neottia Bab. in E. B. S. t. 2817 : Brit. FI. 
Bogs and marshes. Between Lyndhurst and Christchurch in the 
New Forest, Hants; Wire Forest, Worcestershire. St. Ouen’s Pond, 
Jersey, i; 7, 8. 
3. S. gemmipara Lindl. ( drooping L.~); knobs long cylin- 
drical, radical leaves linear-lanceolate about as long as the 
stem, cauline ones triangular lanceolate, bracteas glabrous 
shorter than the flower, spike glabrous dense 3-ranked, sepals 
equal obtuse cohering together, lip oblong twice as broad at 
the base as at the obtuse crenulate apex, slightly constricted 
in the middle, ovary pyriform. Neottia Sm. : E. B. S. t. 2786 
(bad). N. cernua Brit. FI. Spiranthes Bab. in Linn. Soc. 
Trans, xix. p. 262, t. 32. 
Castletown, near Berehaven, Co. Cork, Ireland. 7J.. 8,9. — We 
revert to the name gemmipara, as Dr. Lindley has shown that this 
species is not the sqm e as the true S. cernua Rich. 
7. Goodyera Br. Goodyera. 
Perianth ringent: the 2 lateral outer sepals placed under 
and including the gibbous base of the lip. Lip entire at the 
apex, free from the column, flat above and without callosities. 
Pollen-masses sectile. Pollen angled. — Named in compliment 
to Mr. John Goodyer, a Hampshire botanist of the time of Ge- 
rarde. 
1. G. repens Br. ( creeping G .) ; creeping, lower leaves ovate 
